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🇵🇹 Portugees · A2 · Talking About the Past

What did you do yesterday?

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Woordenschat

  • ontemyesterday
  • na semana passadalast week
  • trabalheiI worked
  • comiI ate
  • dormiI slept
  • faleiI spoke
  • compreiI bought
  • cozinheiI cooked
  • ligueiI called
  • limpeiI cleaned
  • de manhãin the morning
  • à noiteat night

The Pretérito Perfeito Simples (Regular Verbs)

In Portuguese, the pretérito perfeito simples is the main past tense for completed actions. It works like the English simple past.

How to form it

Regular verbs follow predictable patterns based on their ending:

  • -ar verbs (falar): falei, falaste, falou, falámos, falaram
  • -er verbs (comer): comi, comeste, comeu, comemos, comeram
  • -ir verbs (dormir): dormi, dormiste, dormiu, dormimos, dormiram

Example: "Ontem eu trabalhei o dia todo." — Yesterday I worked all day.

Example: "Ela comeu pizza ao jantar." — She ate pizza for dinner.

Time expressions

  • Ontem — yesterday
  • Na semana passada — last week
  • Anteontem — the day before yesterday

These time markers tell your listener you are talking about a finished past event.

Uitdrukkingen

  • O que fizeste ontem?Asking what someone did yesterday
  • Trabalhei o dia todo.Saying you worked all day
  • Não fiz nada de especial.Saying you did nothing special
  • Fiquei em casa.Saying you stayed home
  • Foi um dia longo!Saying it was a long day
  • Liguei para um amigo.Saying you called a friend

Veelgemaakte fouten

  • Eu comer pizza ontem.
    Eu comi pizza ontem.

    Use the conjugated past form comi, not the infinitive comer

  • Ela falou eu ontem.
    Ela falou comigo ontem.

    Use comigo (with me), not eu after a verb

  • Ontem eu trabalhou.
    Ontem eu trabalhei.

    Trabalhou is third person — use trabalhei for eu

  • Eu dormi na semana passado.
    Eu dormi na semana passada.

    Semana is feminine, so the adjective must be passada, not passado

  • Eu limpou a casa.
    Eu limpei a casa.

    Limpou is third person — use limpei for eu

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